The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn 1073
eldavojohn writes "Over a hundred years after the death of its author, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be released in a censored format, removing two derogatory racial slurs: 'injun' and 'nigger.' The latter appears some 219 times in the original novel but both will be replaced by the word 'slave.' An Alabama publisher named NewSouth Books will be editing and censoring the book so that schools and parents might provide their children the ability to study the classic without fear of properly addressing the torturous history of racism and slavery in The United States of America. The Forbes Blog speculates that e-readers could provide us this service automatically. Salon admirably provides point versus counterpoint while the internet at large is in an uproar over this seemingly large acceptance of censorship as necessary even on books a hundred years old. The legendary Samuel Langhorne Clemens himself once wrote, 'the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter,' and now his own writing shall test the truth in that today."
New cover (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I have a much more ambitious vision (Score:5, Funny)
Marketing campaign (Score:5, Funny)
Let all those kids know the book is in the public domain and they can legally download the original version with the bad words and sex scenes in it.
In case you're wondering, mentioning the sex scenes is to make sure they'll actually read the book.
Re:Ministry of Truth? (Score:5, Funny)
I think you are misquoting that book.
My NewSouth Books edition of 1984 doesn't have that paragraph in there at all.
This should be done to all clbuttic literature (Score:3, Funny)
With the rise of eBooks, we should be able to do this automatically to all clbuttic literature.
Anyone who butterts that this is a violation of our consbreastutional rights is overreacting.
Re:And why start NWO censorship with this kind of. (Score:3, Funny)
Town square is all booked up with witch burnings.
And now a word from the author... (Score:4, Funny)
PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Re:I have a much more ambitious vision (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps we would be better served by making the very *concept* of genocide or war simply inconceivable.
You keep using that word but I don't think it means what you think.
awesome (Score:5, Funny)
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Monday, March 22, 2010
GSAA Confirms Link Between Wal-Mart and The Bilderberg Group
The GSAA research division has proved a direct link between the Bilderberg Group and Wal-Mart. This link was confirmed last Saturday night when an attempt to save black shoppers from a terrorist threat was lambasted by Wal-Mart, an attack which was planned by Wal-Mart themselves.
In an attempt to revive the United States economy an attack was planned by the same strategists that successfully executed 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. To minimize collateral damage against voting citizens, which keep Haliburton, the United States controlling body of the Bilderberg Group, in power; black American citizens were targeted. Again.
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On the night of 20th March 2010, a brave operative sacrificed himself in defense of our black citizens. When he was informed of a plot to harm black shoppers at the Wal-Mart he was stationed at, he calmly asked the black shoppers to leave that Wal-Mart.
According to the police, the boy picked up a public-address telephone in the Wal-Mart in Washington Township, one of two dozen accessible to the store’s customers, and said, "All black people, leave the store now." This heroic act saved 73 black people that were shopping in store at the time.
Swift retribution was brought upon the brave soul and he was arrested. Media hype was then focused on the boy as to deflect focus from the failed terrorist attempt. This was done by the same media spin group that has minimized the impact of the Full Body Scanner Project, which is funded by Wal-Mart.
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Re:re Citation Provided (Score:4, Funny)
Treaties and law don't empower the winners. Life is an endless struggle for power and wealth. If they can be got the methods do not matter, and our current fetish for law is but window dressing.
One day, we will lose and a fit replacement will conquer. The idea that the few decades since WWII invalidate the lessons of thousands of years of human history is silly and vain in the extreme.
Hi there Nietzsche! How's the afterlife treating you?
Yes, well, don't keep staring into it then. Okay? Got to run, but good seeing you again old chap.